An Emancipatory Paradigm for Participatory Research on Wartime Childhood. War Childhood Museum in Sarajevo Case Study
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https://doi.org/10.12775/PBE.2024.002Keywords
wartime; childhood; Sarajevo; emancipatory; paradigm; participatory research; memoirism.Abstract
Abstract: The article addresses the issue of using the emancipatory-participatory paradigm in the process of reconstructing the experience of wartime childhood, that is, experiencing formative years in the circumstances of armed conflict. Adopting the specific idiographic case of the Museum of Wartime Childhood in Sarajevo, the author analyzes the local socio-cultural context, methodological assumptions, as well as forms of realization of the mission of the Museum of Wartime Childhood in Sarajevo, which is to legitimize the narratives of those whose voices remain marginalized in the generalized memetic discourse. Such oriented research and educational activities are part of the characteristics of emancipatory and advocacy approaches to participatory research, the specificity of which is also the subject of the analyses of these reflections.
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